Recently, I was at a St. Vincent de Paul store shopping for used books, which I do every so often. I found 4 or 5 books of moderate interest, including Malachi Martin’s book on the […]
When Jesus said, “What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Mt 19.6), presumably he meant it. Certainly the Catholic Church believes he did, and that conviction is the basis for its […]
Translation from Vatican Information Services: MESSAGE FOR 29TH WORLD YOUTH DAY Vatican City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – We publish below the full text of the message the Holy Father has sent to the […]
Today the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a scathing report on the Vatican’s response to the sexual abuse of children by priests worldwide. The report criticizes the Holy See for […]
Subsidiarity is integral to a social doctrine based on natural law rather than technology. That ought to be a feature rather than a bug, but in today’s world it means no one can make sense […]
On May 10, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI authorized the publication of the decree on the heroic virtues of Sr. Emilie Engel. The decree was subsequently published in 2013 in Acta Apostolicae Sedis (vol. 6, pp. […]
When Oscar season rolls around, it’s always interesting to note which films get snubbed. In 1999, while Sam Mendes’ American Beauty raked in accolades from the Academy, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia didn’t even snag a […]
Amid recurrent news that Catholic churches are increasingly being shut in Europe—especially in northern Europe—it is certainly newsworthy whenever this trend is bucked there. And especially in a place one could least expect: Kuopio, […]
Over at First Things, Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska has some reflections on the recent Rolling Stone cover story about Pope Francis (the article that was dubbed superficial and crude by the Vatican […]
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